National Catholic Register portal reports that Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer, in an EWTN interview, previewed four key areas he expects from the upcoming encyclical by the usurper Leo XIV on artificial intelligence: economic reconfiguration, autonomous warfare, cognitive decline in youth, and secular bias in search engines. Spitzer also highlighted tragic cases of teenagers committing suicide after interacting with AI chatbots, emphasizing the lack of conscience in secular AI models. While these concerns may appear superficially valid, the entire discourse unfolds within a framework that ignores the true moral and spiritual catastrophe: the systematic destruction of the Catholic Faith by the very structures now claiming to guide humanity through technological peril.
The Absence of Supernatural Reality in a World of Digital Idols
Father Spitzer’s warnings about AI as a “suicide counselor” or a tool for “academic indolence” are not without merit in the natural order. Yet his analysis—and by extension, the anticipated encyclical—operates entirely within a naturalistic horizon, as if the gravest danger facing man were algorithmic manipulation rather than the loss of faith, grace, and eternal salvation. The Church has always taught that “the fear of the beginning of wisdom” (Ps. 110:10) and that “what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?” (Matt. 16:26). When an entire generation is spiritually orphaned—not by chatbots, but by decades of modernist catechesis, liturgical desecration, and doctrinal dissolution—the rise of artificial idols becomes inevitable. The root cause is not AI; it is apostasy.
St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907), warned that Modernism is the “synthesis of all heresies,” precisely because it reduces religion to human experience and strips it of objective truth. Today’s conciliar sect does not combat this; it embodies it. Its leaders speak of “ethical AI” while remaining silent on the abomination of desolation enthroned in the Vatican—the systematic replacement of the Most Holy Sacrifice with a Protestantized memorial, the denial of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, and the promotion of religious indifferentism under the guise of “dialogue.”
The Heresy of Practical Pelagianism in Technological Garb
Spitzer’s call for “ethical frameworks” and “human oversight” in AI echoes the Pelagian heresy condemned at the Council of Orange (529): the belief that man, by his own efforts and structures, can secure moral order without supernatural grace. The Church has always insisted that “without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5) and that true justice flows only from the social reign of Christ the King—a doctrine solemnly defined by Pius XI in Quas primas (1925). Yet nowhere in Spitzer’s remarks is there any mention of this dogma. Instead, we are offered a technocratic morality detached from the sacraments, the Magisterium, and the Kingship of Christ.
This is not accidental. The conciliar sect has long since abandoned the supernatural mission of the Church. Its “encyclicals” are not acts of the Supreme Pastor exercising the charism of infallibility, but policy documents crafted by committees influenced by secular think tanks and globalist agendas. To expect such a document to address the real crisis—namely, the apostasy of the hierarchy itself—is to mistake the disease for the symptom.
The Silence on True Spiritual Warfare
Father Spitzer speaks of AI-controlled drones and “fail-safe” mechanisms, yet remains utterly silent on the far more lethal weapons deployed daily against souls: the neo-catechisms that deny original sin, the “ecumenical” services that blur the distinction between truth and error, the “interfaith” gatherings that treat idolatry as a path to God. These are not hypothetical dangers; they are documented realities within the structures occupying the Vatican. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) by Pius IX explicitly condemns the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55)—a principle now enshrined in conciliar practice.
Moreover, the tragic cases of youth suicide cited by Spitzer, while heartbreaking, are exploited to elicit emotional sympathy rather than to provoke repentance and conversion. Where is the call to return to the Sacrament of Penance? Where is the exhortation to seek guidance from a true priest—one ordained before the rite was adulterated in 1968? Instead, the solution offered is more technology: “Catholic AI” like Magis AI, which, no matter how well-intentioned, cannot absolve sins, confect the Eucharist, or impart sanctifying grace. It is a technological simulacrum of pastoral care, a digital placebo for a hemorrhaging Church.
The Myth of “Catholic AI” in a Post-Conciliar Vacuum
Spitzer’s promotion of Magis AI as a “Catholic” alternative reveals a profound ecclesiological confusion. In the absence of a true Pope, a valid Magisterium, and intact sacraments, what does “Catholic” even mean? The conciliar sect claims continuity with the past, but its very existence depends on the rejection of pre-1958 doctrine. As the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope; therefore, Leo XIV holds no authority to define morals, let alone issue binding encyclicals. Any document he produces is ipso facto null and void—a private opinion, however widely publicized.
To build an AI grounded in “Catholic theology” while recognizing the legitimacy of the concilar usurpers is to build on sand. True Catholic teaching is preserved only in the integral Tradition handed down through valid bishops and priests who have not embraced Modernism. The real antidote to spiritual desolation is not an algorithm, but the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, offered by a true priest at a true altar, in union with the true Church.
Conclusion: The Only True Encyclical Is the Immutable Deposit of Faith
The world does not need another encyclical from a false pope about artificial intelligence. It needs the perennial doctrine of the Church: that Christ is King, that His Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, and that outside her there is no salvation. Until the hierarchy repents, returns to Tradition, and submits to the Social Reign of Christ the King, all talk of “ethical technology” is mere distraction—a smokescreen obscuring the true battle between the City of God and the City of Man.
As St. Cyprian wrote: “He who does not have the Church as his mother cannot have God as his Father.” Let those who seek truth abandon the digital Babel of the neo-church and return to the Rock of Peter—not the caricature now parading in Rome, but the unchanging Faith once delivered to the saints.
Source:
Father Robert Spitzer Previews Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical, Warns of Secular Chatbot Dangers (ncregister.com)
Date: 22.05.2026